Grounding Justice: Toward Reparative Spatial Futures in Land and Housing

Through this initiative, the PolicyLink This alignment and integration of efforts across various housing team will research and maintain a database of spatial communities and scales of action represent a significant step in justice policies and projects, serving both to document effective the journey toward reparative spatial justice (see the practices and to actively sow the seeds for their wides. [...] Grounding Justice: Toward Reparative Spatial Futures in Land and Housing 7 In this inaugural publication, we aim to illuminate the critical need The Goals of the Spatial Futures Initiative for a reparative spatial justice framework in land and housing policy by uplifting research findings, policy recommendations, The allocation and control of space is a stark testament to the and a multitude of pe. [...] These approaches are presented in the next section, “Laying the Groundwork for Repair.” Spatial Injustices and Racial Disparities The first step to collectively architect our just land and housing futures is to reckon with the historical continuum of entrenched systems and structures that have systematically dispossessed Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities of their spatial and temporal resour. [...] of which were purposefully directed through Black and Brown communities and facilitated the theft of homes and land through eminent domain.21 Grounding Justice: Toward Reparative Spatial Futures in Land and Housing 12 Further, the historical practices of segregation, disinvestment, Gaps in Land Access and Usage and the devaluation of Black and Brown communities created the conditions for the proli. [...] This vision transcends the racial and class oppressions of both the past and present, utilizing the speculative and imaginative tools of Afrofuturism and Indigenous Futurisms to conceive new cartographies of justice and belonging.